Improvement in cider-mills



J. LYTGH.

CIDER MILL.

Patented Nov. 22, 1870.

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anon soot 'JAMES-LYTGE'OF LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA.

Letters Patent No. 109,527, dated November 22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIDER-MILLS.-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, James Lv'rcu, of Laurinburg, in the county of Richmond andState of North Caro lina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cider-Mills; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing of the same which make part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a older mill embracing my improvements;

Figure 2'represents a. vertical longitudinal section Figure 8, a horizontal section; and

Figure 4, a transverse section of the same.

My improvements relateto cider-mills, for cutting, inellowing, and preparing the apples for the press in such manner as to obtain the greatest amount of ci-' der therefrom, and produce a clear quality of juice,

free from the muddy appearance which iscommon to the cider usually produced by other mills.

In the accompanying drawing The mill is representedasa cylinder of wood, bored out, and composed of a fixed and a hinged section, A and B, fittedwith-headmfl, in the manner of a barrel.

' Within the lower fixed section a toothed cylinder, D, is fitted in bearings inthe heads, while the upper hinged section supports and carries the hopper E.

The cylinder Dis aboutone third less in diameter than the interior of its inclosing-ease, and is armed with iron cutters, a, and cylindrical pins, 7), which extend therefromto near the inner circumference of the case, and arranged'in two spiral rows from one end of the cylinder to the other, while the inclOsing-case is provided with two horizontal rows of cylindrical pins, 0, projecting from the interior of the ease to near the surface of the cylinder. These pins 0 are placed-at an angle of about fifteen degrees, sothat the cutters a and pins b of the cylinder will strike them obliquely, thusproduciug a better eiiect in cutting and mellow-' ing the apples than if they-were horizontal.

. The cutters are secured on that cndof the cylinder immediately below the hopper, and serve only to cut theapples into pieces, while the'pins serve to squeeze and mellow them as they are brought into contact and forced between the fixed pins, whileoblique wings, d, on the opposite end of the cylinder, catch and discharge themthrough an opening, I.

whereby Iam enabled to'prodnee a clearer juice than if the apples were delivered to the press in a grated, pulp'y'condition.

In order that the apples may be delivered directly upon. the fixed pins'c at the side of the cylinder 1), the

'-liopper.E is arranged at one side of the hinged cover B, directly above one of the said fixed rows of pins, so that the apples may. descendthrough the hopper and rest upon said pins in a position to receive the action of. the knives (1-, instead of being delivered directly upon the cylinder; .andl have found this arraugement'of the hopper tovbe' very advantageous, in preventing the liability of the apples to choke therein, as'they are thus presented to the notion of the knives at the side of the cylinder.

The apples, thus cut into pieces and rendered soft and juicy, are worked to the opposite end of the cylinder by'the spiral form of the pins 'thercou, and-forced, by the oblique Wings 41 on the end of the cylinder, through an opening,'1*, in its opposite end-,anddelivered by a chute into a press of anysuitable c nstruction. i Y

The hinged section B is provided with-a clasp, G,- by which it is'secured to the base A of the case, and the cylinder is provided witha crank-handle, H, by which it is turned.

The mill thuscoustructed may be mounted in any suitable flame-work, andbeing made entire] y of wood, except the cutters, cannot rust or corrode, Having described my invention,

I claimg e The combination of the hopper E located at the sideof the hinged section B, and the cylinder D, with the case A, oblique rows of pins c, cylinder D, spiral whole arranged and operating as described. I

' JAMES LYTGH. Witnesses: 'T. H. Urrnsmn',

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